Review of “How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else” by Jeffrey J. Kripal, 2024 Cover Image

Review of “How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else” by Jeffrey J. Kripal, 2024
Review of “How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else” by Jeffrey J. Kripal, 2024

Author(s): Gabriel R. Suciu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Book-Review
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: dual-aspect monism; Carl Gustav Jung; Jeffrey J. Kripal; Ego; Self; God; Mind; Matter

Summary/Abstract: This article summarizes Jeffrey J. Kripal’s book “How to Think Impossibility”. Following this summary, an overview of Carl G. Jung’s work, which serves as Kripal’s starting point, will be presented. Subsequently, certain differences in terminology (like: monism, dualism, pluralism, etc) will be clarified. The article will conclude with several examples from authors trained as psychologists, mathematicians, or physicists, who have written in the spirit of dual aspect monism.

  • Issue Year: 17/2025
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 849-856
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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